Soil moisture, temperature and bulk density and earthworm abundance and biomass along transects from hedges into arable fields, pasture fields, ley strips established in arable fields and arable strips established in pasture fields at a farm in West Yorkshire, England (2015-2017)

Data are presented on earthworm abundance with distance from hedgerows was recorded for arable fields and pasture leys at Spens farm, the University of Leeds experiment farms, Yorkshire. Sampling was carried out annual from April 2015 to April 2017 with additional sampling in December 2015, and July and October 2016. Pits were excavated and soil hand sorted for earthworms. Mustard solution was then poured into the pit and any emerging earthworms collected. All earthworms were preserved in ethanol for identification using the Sims and Gerard Field studies key. At each pit the following measurements were also taken: soil moisture, soil temperature, soil bulk density. The samples were taken to determine the influence of leys on soil quality by Miranda Prendergast-Miller and colleagues as part of the SoilBioHedge project (Grant Reference NE/M017095/1) funded by the NERC Soil Security Programme. (Grant Reference NE/M017044/1). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d3dcfd8a-918d-48a4-9511-ec832de34636

本数据集收录了在利兹大学实验农场Spens农场，位于约克郡的耕地和草地中，对距离树篱距离与蚯蚓丰度之间的关系所进行的调查数据。采样工作自2015年4月至2017年4月每年进行一次，并在2015年12月、2016年7月和10月进行了额外采样。通过对采集的土壤样本进行挖掘和手工分拣，收集蚯蚓。随后，在挖掘的坑洞中倒入芥末溶液，收集任何出现的蚯蚓。所有蚯蚓均用乙醇保存，以便使用Sims和Gerard的田间研究关键进行鉴定。在每个坑洞中，还测量了土壤湿度、土壤温度和土壤容重。这些样本的采集旨在确定草地对土壤质量的影响，由Miranda Prendergast-Miller及其同事作为土壤生物树篱项目（资助编号NE/M017095/1）的一部分进行，该项目由NERC土壤安全计划资助。（资助编号NE/M017044/1）。关于本数据集的详细信息可在以下链接找到：https://doi.org/10.5285/d3dcfd8a-918d-48a4-9511-ec832de34636。